Giovanni Battista Lusieri

Giovanni Battista Lusieri
View of the Bay of Naples, ca. 1791
Born1755
Rome, Italy
Died1821
Athens, Greece
Known forElgin Marbles

Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1755–1821) was an Italian landscape painter from Naples. He was court painter to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies before working for Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and becoming involved in the removal and shipping of the Elgin Marbles to England.

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